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lundi 25 mars 2024, 18:35
The first-ever NixCon in North America was co-located with SCALE this year. The event drew a mix of experienced Nix users and people new to the project. I attended talks that covered using Nix to build Docker images, upcoming changes to how NixOS performs early booting, and...
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle. By that time, 12,435 non-merge changesets had been merged into the mainline, making for a less-busy merge window than the last couple of kernel releases (but similar to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and thunderbird), Fedora (amavis, chromium, clojure, firefox, gnutls, kubernetes, and tcpreplay), Mageia (freeimage, libreswan, nodejs-hawk,...
Version 29.3 of the Emacs editor has been released: Emacs 29.3 is an emergency bugfix release; it includes no new features except a small number of changes intended to resolve security vulnerabilities uncovered in Emacs 29.2. Those vulnerabilities mostly have to do with...
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus Torvalds described some rather large updates to the core kernel code that are coming for 6.9: The timer subsystem had a fairly big rewrite, to have per-cpu timer wheels to improve performance of timers, which can be a...
vendredi 22 mars 2024, 13:50
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, pillow, and thunderbird), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, ovn, and webkitgtk), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, ffmpeg, fontforge, libuv, and nodejs-tough-cookie), Oracle (kernel, libreoffice, postgresql-jdbc, ruby:3.1,...
jeudi 21 mars 2024, 16:07
While a programming error in the kernel may be subject to direct exploitation, usually a more roundabout approach is required to take advantage of a security bug. One popular approach for those wishing to take advantage of vulnerabilities is heap spraying, and it has often...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns-recursor and php-dompdf-svg-lib), Fedora (grub2, libreswan, rubygem-yard, and thunderbird), Mageia (libtiff and python-scipy), Red Hat (golang, nodejs, and nodejs:16), Slackware (python3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure,...
Version 1.77.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for NUL-terminated C-string literals, the ability for async functions to call themselves recursively, the stabilization of the offset_of!() macro, and more.
Verson 5.39.9 of the Perl language has been released. Changes this time include a new 'medium-precedence' logical exclusive-or operator, a number of updated modules, and more; see this page for details.
The Redis in-memory database system has had its license changed to either the Redis Source Available License or the Server Side Public License (covered here in 2018); neither license qualifies as free software. Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis...
Danilo Krummrich has announced the existence of the 'Nova' project within Red Hat. We just started to work on Nova, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs. Nova, in the long term, is intended to serve as the successor of Nouveau for GSP-firmware-based GPUs. With...
mercredi 20 mars 2024, 22:07
Version 46 of the GNOME desktop has been released. 'GNOME 46 is code-named 'Kathmandu', in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.' Significant changes include a new global search feature, enhancements to the Files app, improved remote...
Cockpit is an interesting project for web-based Linux administration that has received relatively little attention over the years. Part of that may be due to the project's strategy of minor releases roughly every two weeks, rather than larger releases with many new features. ...
The Python project has announced three security releases, 3.10.14, 3.9.19, and 3.8.19. In addition to the security fixes, these releases are notable for two reasons; they are the first to make use of GitHub Actions to perform public builds instead of building artifacts 'on a ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fontforge and imagemagick), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (cherrytree, python-django, qpdf, and sqlite3), Red Hat (bind, cups, emacs, fwupd, gmp, kernel, libreoffice, libX11, nodejs, opencryptoki, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:10,...
mardi 19 mars 2024, 22:18
There are a number of different language-enhancement ideas that crop up with some regularity in the Python community; many of them have been debated and shot down multiple times over the years. When one inevitably arises anew, it can sometimes be difficult to tamp it down,...
Version 124.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include support for 'caret browsing mode' in the PDF viewer and the ability to control the sorting of tabs in the Firefox View screen.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, postgresql-11, and zfs-linux), Fedora (freeimage, mingw-expat, and mingw-freeimage), Mageia (apache-mod_security-crs, expat, and multipath-tools), Oracle (.NET 7.0 and kernel), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), ...
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